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GARY HEISE |
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Landscape painting, to me, represents a dialog between myself and the world of creation. It also serves as a vehicle for self-expression, in which the outer world is perceived, transformed through experience, and projected as a sort of emotional and intuitive self-portrait. In the early fifth century in China, Tsung Ping wrote, “As for landscape [painting], it has physical existence, yet tends toward the spiritual....Landscapes display the beauty of the Way [of Nature] through their forms, and humane men delight in this.” My watercolor paintings are a mixture of Western and Chinese painting technique and American landscape subject matter. I work in ink and watercolor on Chinese “rice” paper (unsized cotton xuan), using a combination of Chinese and Western pigments for a broad color palette.Much of my artistic inspiration comes from traditional and contemporary Chinese painters, but my paintings are always based on a personal experience of the landscape. Usually this inspiration is the highlands of northern New Jersey near my home, or any of the places I have visited, including Yosemite National Park in California and Bristol, Rhode Island. Education 1983: BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design. Selected Exhibitions 2014: Artists, Framers, Curators, Westwood Gallery, Westwood, NJ
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All works are ink, water color, gouache on rice paper |
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August Storm |
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Autumn Friends |
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Dawn Burst |
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Field Of Wild Asters (18"x 27") |
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Mountain Cherry Creek (18"x 27") |
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The Space Between Night And Day |
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Night Time Pine |
Bristol Harbor (27" x 18") |
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Rolling Hills (18"x 13.5") |
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Hilltops Budding (18"x 13.5") |
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First Snow Spruce Hills (27"x 18") |
Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite |
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